Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

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Derrick Fox

My goal as a chef has always been to inspire. I started with nothing, and work every day to make my dreams come true!

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Who or what inspires you to cook?

My Dad showed me the love for cooking food, and Gordon Ramsay inspired me to elevate it beyond imagination, both are my culinary inspirations!

What's your all time favorite dish to make?

I love cooking scallops. Something so special about the margin for error, 30 seconds short they are under, 30 seconds too much they are rubbery! Nailing that takes precision. I take everything in the kitchen back to playing music, it’s about timing, love, finesse, you got to be romantic about food, and I find that in scallops…. Also pasta, pasta is like Jazz, let’s save that for another time.

What would you do with the $25,000?

There is a lot I could do with 25k right. I want to start a cloud kitchen and sell smash burgers to the greater Dallas area.

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